Adjustable truss hoop, Sabbathday Lake, ME

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Adjustable truss hoop, Sabbathday Lake, ME

Object ID:

1952.5251.1

Community:

Maine, Sabbathday Lake

Makers

Shaker

Description

Truss hoop, adjustable, consisting of two annual semi-circular disks of birch secured at one side by a forged strap hinge secured to the outer circumference of the two-piece disk with flat-head iron wood screws. The other joint has forged straps similarly affixed to the outside edge, but these straps have right andle bends at the joint with a square-headed bolt through one vertical and threaded into the tapped hole in the other.

Maine Sabbathday Lake

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